COUNT­ING THE COST

Although he paid well over the odds for his Cana­dian ETA, Peter Bowes (“Travel views”, Oct 27) got off lightly. I ap­plied on­line for two ESTAs for travel to the United States on what I un­der­stood was the Of­fi­cial US ap­pli­ca­tion site: the charge be­ing $14 (£10.60) for each ESTA. Con­fir­ma­tion came through from the of­fi­cial US De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­rity stat­ing au­tho­ri­sa­tions to travel had been granted and pay­ments